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...Irving continues, the lone maniac exclusively responsible for bringing down European civilization in Götterdämmerung. This singular chronicle of World War II displays a quiet and sometimes fascinating empathy for its subject, viewing the battle maps as they looked to the Führer in his dank bunkers with their mosquitoes and their fanged names-"Werewolf," "Wolfs Lair." Irving describes Hitler's medications and mashed-apple breakfasts, and offers a little touch of comedy when a hapless secretary blunders into a war conference wearing shorts and carrying a tennis racquet...
...fact, Irving advances a novel thesis that has already infuriated some historians. His question: What did Hitler know about the extermination of Europe's Jews, and when did he know it? Nearly everyone has assumed that the Führer himself ordered the final solution. Irving argues to the contrary that: 1) Hitler did not know about the programmed executions of the Jews until some time in 1943 or 1944, and 2) "the incontrovertible evidence is that Hitler ordered on Nov. 30, 1941, that there was to be 'no liquidation' of the Jews...
...stations of this miserable exodus were adopted, is arguable." Irving believes that Heinrich Himmler und the SS "pulled the wool over Hitler's eyes," keeping him in ignorance even while the gas chambers were working at capacity. It is also possible, the author argues, that the Führer possessed a familiar characteristic of heads of state-a conscious desire "not to know", what in a later era was called deniability. "My own hypothesis," says Irving, "is that the killing was partly of an ad hoc nature ... chosen by the middle-level authorities in the eastern territories overrun...
...assemble these thousand-plus pages of bestseller, John Toland interviewed a host of adjutants and field marshals, secretaries and doctors, even the Führer's faithful chauffeur and pilot. Perhaps partly for that reason, the book is lumpy with anecdote and short on understanding...
Amin's public rhetoric pushes bombast to its limits. He has praised Adolf Hitler and plans to erect a memorial to der Führer in Kampala. Constantly lecturing world leaders, Amin has (in 1973) wished Richard Nixon "a speedy recovery from the Watergate affair"; advised President Gerald Ford to choose a black as U.S. Vice President; told Arab states to "train kamikaze pilots [to] beat Israel"; and denounced Julius Nyerere, the President of neighboring Tanzania, as "a whore who spreads gonorrhea all over Africa...